bga_676312 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS Tétradrachme “à la rouelle”
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Price : 950.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme “à la rouelle”
Date: c. IIe-Ier siècles AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,40 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée des deux côtés. Joli revers, de haut relief. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Zeus (?) à droite, une couronne de lauriers stylisée dans la chevelure.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à gauche, sans bras ; la crinière et la queue du cheval pointées ; une rouelle au-dessus de la croupe.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire à la rouelle est très rare. Le cavalier simplifié à l’excès, sans bras, et le cheval a la particularité d’avoir la crinière et la queue traitées en pointillés. Cette rare série semble très mal représentée avec aucun autre exemplaire rigoureusement identique dans les ouvrages consultés.
This example with a wheel is very rare. The rider is oversimplified, without arms, and the horse has the particularity of having its mane and tail treated in dotted lines. This rare series seems very poorly represented with no other rigorously identical example in the works consulted.
This example with a wheel is very rare. The rider is oversimplified, without arms, and the horse has the particularity of having its mane and tail treated in dotted lines. This rare series seems very poorly represented with no other rigorously identical example in the works consulted.
Historical background
DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THE TETRADRACHMS OF PHILIP II AND HIS SUCCESSORS
(3rd-1st century BC)
Under this title are generally grouped all the coinages that do not have a precise attribution. Sometimes the term "Eastern Celts" is offered. After the Celts plundered Delphi and spread through Greece and Asia Minor, they seized a significant amount of spoils, thanks to their plunder. The Hellenistic kings, Diadoques or Epigones, used them as mercenaries in their armies where the average salary was normally one stater of gold corresponding to five tetradrachms of Attic standard or twenty drachms. The prototypes which represented the head of Zeus with a horseman were widely copied and imitated throughout the Balkans, northern Macedonia and Thrace. The final phase of the coinage occurs at the end of the 2nd century or the beginning of the first century BC where there are no traces of the obverse and the reverse as well as legends more than a domed face of a coin. practically smooth on both sides.
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